French Revolution (1789-1799)

Evolution of Civilization

MONARCHY vs. REPUBLIC ( )

STATUS () SUBJECT ()

CLASS () CITIZEN ()

Sieys: What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be? Something. Robespierre: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is nothing other than prompt, severe, inflexible justiceThe government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny Edmund Burke: The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground, their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navySociety is indeed a contract, but a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are dead, and those who are to be born

Multiple Voices

Deputy, delegate, representative: , Estate, status, caste: <->Class: Privilege: , privileged class: Commoner/Ordinary people: Constitutional Monarchy: Conservatism, conservative: , Radical/Moderate Revolutionary: , Bourgeois/Bourgeoisie Status quo: Universal adult male suffrage:
Jacobin/Girondist

Historical Terms

Crisis of the French Monarchy

Assemble des notables

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Parlement

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Estates General

The Political Structure before the French Revolution

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1789 Estates General

The opening of the Estates General in Versailles(May 1789) The Third Estates decides to call itself the National Assembly(June 1789)

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Gironde
(Moderates) Jacobins (Radicals)

Estates General

The Convention National Assembly

The Fall of the Bastille(July 1789)

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (August 1789) Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790)

Proclamation of the Constitution of 1791 Louis XVI at Varennes

The opening of the Estates General in Versailles(May 1789) The Third Estates decides to call itself the National Assembly(June 1789) The Fall of the Bastille(July 1789) Declaration of the Rights of Man & Citizen(Aug.1789) Abolition of titles of nobility (June 1790) Civil Constitution of the Clergy divides Catholic population(July 1790) The Flight to Varennes of the royal family(June 1791)

The First Phase of Revolution: Liberal Revolution

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King
the half of clergy the nobles (2/3 of the officer corps)

Counter-revolutionary

The Center of Counterrevolutionary Forces

Declaration of war on Austria (April 1792) Attack on the Tuileries Palace, suspension of the King (August 1792) Establishment of the First French Republic and the CONVENTION(Sept.1792) Execution of Louis XVI (Jan. 1793) Robespierre was elected to the Committee of Public Safety (July 1793) The Terror(Sept.1793-July 1794) Thermidorian Reaction (July 1794) Napoleon coup detat(Nov.1799)
Causes of the Terror: War Situation/Cultural Revolution

The second phase of Revolution: The Radical Revolution

Attack on the Tuileries Palace, suspension of the King(August 1792) Execution of Louis XVI(January 1793)

The Terror(Sept.1793-July 1794) Thermidorian Reaction(July 1794)

Robespierre: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than prompt, severe, inflexible justice

Festival of Supreme Being (1794) Republican Calendar (1794)

The Napoleonic Empire Modern French History

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